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Think of it this way, a few months ago if Robert Henke asked you if you would give your leftie for a custom, tightly integrated controller for Live, none of us would have hesitated because he teased us for so long that it would never happen.

We fantasized about such a controller....something as functional as monodeck, but none of us dreamed it would be as good looking as this!

So will Robert break and choose this new sexy controller or will he stay old school? Or will Akai make him a customized APC to consummate the partnership with Ableton?

jamester wrote: While not concrete, more than just a guess:

UPDATE: UK details - £399 and ETA April. But don't hold me to that.

http://www.skratchworx.com/news3/comments.php?id=1100

so people are converting a guess of £399 to $799. Er, weird , because that's not how the world works unfortunately !

well, to convert British prices to 'rest of world' prices you must include the 'rip-off-Britain' tax

check this

MPD32 = £215
MPD32 = €249
MPD32 = $279

So based on that spread the new device is more likely to be about $470 and €450


That's what it is to be trapped on this poxy island.

Hidden Driveways wrote:I'm trying to picture this in my head:

"You can shift your clip focus and get an overview of the clips you have loaded for your set.

How is this going to work exactly? Is it like a zoom-out kind of thing where the 40 illuminated triggers sort of change to show you more cells? I can't really picture that.

Any ideas?

look at the picture of it. see the shift button and the red text at the top of the box?

Angstrom wrote:

jamester wrote: While not concrete, more than just a guess:

UPDATE: UK details - £399 and ETA April. But don't hold me to that.

http://www.skratchworx.com/news3/comments.php?id=1100

so people are converting a guess of £399 to $799. Er, weird , because that's not how the world works unfortunately !

In my world anything listed in pounds sells for about twice that amount in US dollars.

Tone Deft wrote:

Hidden Driveways wrote:I'm trying to picture this in my head:

"You can shift your clip focus and get an overview of the clips you have loaded for your set.

How is this going to work exactly? Is it like a zoom-out kind of thing where the 40 illuminated triggers sort of change to show you more cells? I can't really picture that.

Any ideas?

look at the picture of it. see the shift button and the red text at the top of the box?

Yup. I see it. What's your point?

/bangs head on desk.

Angstrom wrote:

jamester wrote: While not concrete, more than just a guess:

UPDATE: UK details - £399 and ETA April. But don't hold me to that.

http://www.skratchworx.com/news3/comments.php?id=1100

so people are converting a guess of £399 to $799. Er, weird , because that's not how the world works unfortunately !

well, to convert British prices to 'rest of world' prices you must include the 'rip-off-Britain' tax

check this

MPD32 = £215
MPD32 = €249
MPD32 = $279

So based on that spread the new device is more likely to be about $470 and €450


That's what it is to be trapped on this poxy island.

Let us not forget that British prices include tax, while American prices do not.
£215 minus 20% VAT = £180 = $261
or alternatively
$279 plus 7% (MN sales tax) = $299 = £205

Angstrom wrote:

jamester wrote: While not concrete, more than just a guess:

UPDATE: UK details - £399 and ETA April. But don't hold me to that.

http://www.skratchworx.com/news3/comments.php?id=1100

so people are converting a guess of £399 to $799. Er, weird , because that's not how the world works unfortunately !

well, to convert British prices to 'rest of world' prices you must include the 'rip-off-Britain' tax

check this

MPD32 = £215
MPD32 = €249
MPD32 = $279

So based on that spread the new device is more likely to be about $470 and €450


That's what it is to be trapped on this poxy island.

£215 = €239 = $313

It was different 6 months ago when you could get 2 dollars for every pound.

SO a more accurate conversion would be

399 British pounds - 10 rip-off island tax = 359. GBP

359 British pounds = 522.3809 U.S. dollars

Tone Deft wrote:/bangs head on desk.

You press shift and _________ happens in the clip matrix.

Please fill in the blank, Tony.

First, APC40 is a cool name.

8O wrote:

chapelier fou wrote:Only 5 scenes is maybe not enough, though.

Akai wrote:The matrix is not limited to only 40 clips: you can scroll and shift, enabling access to an unlimited number of cells.

I'm guessing - hoping - that applies to scenes too.

I would assume [Shift] + [Scene 1] = first five scenes, etc

shai wrote:i wouldn't retire my PK at all . . .
does akai allow native mode.. ? i think not

Robert Henke wrote: Plus the capability to customize what it does using MfL

will MfL have pre-built objects for it? Or for LiveAPI?

What's the cross-fader like? Penny & Giles -ish quality? Replaceable?

(going to eat. only on page 8, more questions soon no doubt)

shit?

stutter wrote:What's the cross-fader like? Penny & Giles -ish quality? Replaceable?

Think the Akai site mentioned it was replaceable, yes.

APC40 Technical Specification Sheet:

http://www.architecturalproducts.co.uk/ ... Glazed.pdf